Building Your Own Tweeting Weather Station
I've been a big weather nerd for a while. It started with my grandfather and his cork board hurricane tracking map, and then my father and I tracking on paper and then a DOS program, and then me developing my own hurricane intensity scale. I had a few RaspberryPi's lying around and decided to look into building my own weather station for my house. A RaspberryPi, if you're unaware, is a small computer that packs some decent specs (and a lot of extra input/output pins) in a circuit board about the size of a deck of cards. And it's only like $35. A great tool for this job!
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